shrub

/ʃɹʌb/

verb 4noun 3name 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

VERB + SHRUB

grow | plant, put in | dig up, take out | replant

cut back, prune

We pruned the flowering shrubs in our garden last spring.

SHRUB + VERB

grow

The flowering shrubs grew taller each year along our garden fence.

come into flower, flower

SHRUB + NOUN

rose

PHRASES

be planted with shrubs

The garden borders were planted with low-growing shrubs that needed little water.

a variety of shrub

Definitions

noun

A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.

No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.

Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.

verb

To lop; to prune.

The Papistes[…]though they be woll shrubbed, and shred, yet they begin euen nowe before the springe, to budde.

To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.

noun

A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial

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Synonyms

noun — a low woody perennial plant usually having several major ste

bush

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.

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The Papistes[…]though they be woll shrubbed, and shred, yet they begin euen nowe before the springe, to budde.

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The people who benefit from making fun of shrubbing, therefore, are Kenyans who do not speak indigenous languages, because they are less likely to shrub than Kenyans who learned English as a second la

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However, Mwandani and her brother had noted that their mother had shrubbed and pointed it out right away.

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It is still considered embarrassing if people in authority like teachers or newscasters “shrub.”

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, shrub is marked as obsolete, slang, derogatory, rare, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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